The Ministry of Health estimates per capita new visits to government health facilities as 0.36 for the year 2001 02, a low level of utilization in a country which relies heavily on public provision of health care [ 20].
This scenario creates an economic incentive to operate the process at a high level of utilization, where utilization is defined as the ratio of the number of customers served (the throughput) to the maximum number of customers that we could serve (the capacity).
The results show that the LG service can achieve a high level of utilization while still reliably keeping the traffic within the maximum loss rate requirement.
Our results agree with previous research that found health care utilization for immigrants varies with years since arrival but over their lifespan immigrants have a similar level of utilization to the Canadian-born [21].
Health insurance plans are expected to screen unqualified practitioners from the network, provide a moderate level of utilization review and oversight to avert abuses and fraud, and establish modest incentives to encourage clinical improvement.
In order to isolate those cases where the index has underperformed, and where we expect inefficiencies due to excessive expenditure on overheads and general operating costs, we add to our model a dummy variable (DummyUNDER), counting 1 if the index goes below a physiological average level of utilization, and 0 otherwise.
Although the level of accessibility to reproductive health services by geographical assessment among youths in our study was high, the financial accessibility was low reflecting a low overall level of utilization of all RH services.
We report, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the level of utilization of a MET service over a 24-hour period and found a significant increase in the number of MET calls around periods of nursing handover and routine nursing observation.
The objective of this study is to investigate, from real project data, the level of utilization of a project management software package, developed by an engineering construction firm recognized internationally, and its link with project performance.
However, the Government has insufficient operating funds for health even at the present level of utilization and a relatively small proportion of external funds is used for recurrent service costs.
